What a wonderful analysis, one worthy of the song itself! One of the things that strikes me about a lot of BTS’s songs is how intelligently they are structured. They remind me of a favourite perfume. The top notes are the explorations of love and loss in relationships, difficulties encountered while perusing a career, dealing with constant criticism and negativity, and exploring the sense of being unmoored and estranged from oneself when the success one has worked so hard for is achieved (all unusual topics explored musically in and of themselves). Then comes the framework on which these ideas are placed, drawn from art, literature, science, philosophy, psychology, and sociology. The emotive element that brings the song together is the base note. That quality of Han, pervasive in greater or lesser degree in almost all their songs, is what makes their songs resonate at a deeper level and more enduring level; it is as if, even if a situation can’t be grasped at an intellectual level, we can deeply identify with it emotionally. Spring Day was one of the first songs I heard soon after I fell down the BTS rabbit hole. I had little idea of what it meant apart from that it was about missing someone. But there was something so haunting about it that it had me in a chokehold. And even now, a few years down the ARMY road, after getting to know more about the meanings and references in the song and MV, it is really that exquisite quality of emotion that grabs me by the heart and doesn’t let go, that lingers and endures.

Hugely impressed at how well you analyse everything BTS, and express yourself! Am delighted to have found your site, and look forward to working through all your videos! Please keep them coming, they are so very helpful in slowly coming to grips with everything BTS has offered us.

Beautifully analysed. It’s a lot to process, but @essemme has said everything I feel at the moment, so I’m going to leave it at that.

You've helped me feel a little closer to J-Hope's world. Thank you for making this video essay! Great work!

Thank you again! I always look for your new videos!

J-Hoooooooope 💜

So thoughtful and very interesting! Thank you. 💜

I now understand how talented and caring J hope personality truly is. Army loves him so much more for his spiritual, emotional, and mindful encouragement. ❤❤❤

Thank you for sharing this video with us, J-hope is coming back today and soon we’ll have ALL 7 of them back together! I’m so excited and happy. I still can’t believe it that J-hope is coming back, time really flies by so quickly!😂 This was a great video, in Welcoming J-hope back home today.💜I hope you have a wonderful day or night.

Brilliant! Thank you!

I'm far from the first person to cover this topic - see the video's description for a great video that covered many of these literary references back when Hope World was first released! Also, a correction: throughout the video, I refer to Jules Verne's adventure novel as "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea". That is actually the name of the film adaptation; the novel is called "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas" - plural rather than singular. I apologize for the slip up!

This was excellent. I’m baby Army (August 2022) and that accepted main interpretation of the song being a call out to k-pop fandom culture has always confused me because that’s not at all how I heard the song. I have always seen it through a lens of a consensual playful seduction in which both parties, ARMY and BTS, are engaged. The dimensions of what is at the end of that seduction really fits with your ideas that BTS leads ARMY to a better, happier place and also with the idea that only ARMY is able to hear the music that leads them to follow BTS. It’s such a layered song. To me the music is also fascinating: a song composed to pull you in with that steady bass and the siren-like voices of the vocal line. Thank you for this great video, I just subscribed to your channel!

Very good commentary. Thank you for putting this together. 😀

i love this.

bts defends and protects army more than themselves. they always risk the hate that haters are very ready anytime to dish out, but their music is made for army and themselves, not for those who refuse to listen to their message. which is why army will defend and protect bts even more.

Hi, like you, I became an ARMY early 2020 & just discovered your channel through a post in our Texas ARMY group; thank you so much for delving into aspects of BTS..whether songs analyses or any other areas of interest concerning the much beloved 7. Now, I'm hooked; your in depth take on their songs serve to give a clearer understanding of what messages their lyrics mean to deliver to not only the youth in particular, but to the whole world. May you never tire in your endeavor...💜🌸💜

Guess what- BH is a good representative of the corrupt, selfish, Model of favoritism town people. Maybe BTS was describing HYBE

Thank you for your bright thoughts and in depth analyzes 💜

Very well analyzed! BTS is our Pied Piper who brought us to new life!

Wow I just thought it was something as simple as telling teens to please go to school and do your schoolwork and homework first then listen to BTS

Tamar Herman is the writer who in 2018 said BlackPink was a breath of fresh air Kpop needs and that BTS are on their way out. She also denigrated them and ARMY when she guested on a KZbin channel. She's notorious in ARMY circles and we have canceled her. She wrote a book on BTS around the pandemic time that no one bought. I haven't heard her name in awhile. I hope she's moved on from Kpop, or grown up at least.

Like you I tend to deeply analyze the lyrics. I well remember the first time I heard this song. It hit me like a lightening bolt. I thought WHOA what IS this? Why this almost physical reaction? So at the time I looked at the lyrics deeply and it didn't quite satisfy me as it was not the feeling I was getting from the song. So I accepted the imagery and feelings as equal to the lyrics. I take what RM said as the guide. IT IS A GIFT TO US... a GIFT would not be something to address toxic fandom culture. A GIFT IS PERSONAL. LIFE is hard sometimes. And they are glad they can give us some joy. And it's OK to give into that as long as we use it to motivate us. The music can make us happy.... It can make us feel a little naughty. That's ok too. It's OUR gift from BTS... to take out whenever we need it and give ourselves over to it. Sometimes we are happy and jump around. Sometimes it is overwhelming love. Sometimes it helps us to cry and tells us that it's ok. Dangerous isn't always bad. People are attracted to it. It's only how you respond. So take their gift and use it as you see fit. We make them happy.... they make us happy... but it's not the entire story now is it? That's the part that we have trouble with making others understand who can't hear the flute. We are in each others hearts.... for good times and bad times. It speaks deeper than the lyrics.

13:58 is very much on point. WHY do some of us hear the flute/BTS... and others mock us for it as they do not hear it at all. I'm a US BTS ARMY since 2014. They found me... spoke to me... at a time of great loss when my husband died much too young. It was long before most in America had any idea of who BTS was. I stumbled upon them on KZbin. The music gave me a spark of joy back that grew. But those around me treated me as if I had kind of lost it. That hurt. It's just that they couldn't hear the same thing. I couldn't understand WHY they couldn't hear it. So eventually I just didn't share my interest in BTS with those around me anymore. I only shared with other ARMYs online. This continued until the guys began to enter the military and I was a bit anxious. I knew they were coming back but I worried how I, myself was going to cope without my "BTS happy pill". So I started sharing again. I have to say.... it's not much better. They still don't get it but at least my children who are adults now are understanding and sweet about it and even gift me with BTS items at times. Now more than 10 years later I think I understand it a bit better. MOST ARMYs will tell you that BTS came to them when it was needed. That is when we could hear them. Others may like the music or enjoy the beat... but if you are real ARMY it's because they came into your heart when needed.... and when they needed us.

This interpretation makes sense. Pied pier is usually depicted in a negative way but it is a lesson to learn

wow so interesting!

I am new Army here. Thank you so much for giving me more understanding who BTS are. I'm loving then more.

This is a really good analysis, and I agree with your opinion. Thank you for creating this video and making me think deeply about the song, the Pied Piper legend (and the various interpretations), and, of course, the fandom.

Yeah. No one can tell me Butter isn’t dirty lol. Who puts props like butter on a chair next to a stove and a bush 😁💜💜💜 Jk saying it’s “no one’s business how we left and right” in the tunnel in mv standing next to you. Well in butter “side step left right to my beat” how you going to left right if not at the same time?? It’s not left THEN right. For Pied piper….it’s sexy and so is the beat. Stop trying to purify them lol. They are adults, I don’t want kittens and rainbows all the time.

Wow great made. Greetings from Tricity in Poland ❤

Wow thsnk ypu

Love BTS ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ Greetings from Tricity in Poland

Thank you for this great analysis. I have always loved this song but been somewhat troubled and confused about why they would express Army life in such a derogatory way. I had tears in my eyes hearing your explanation. I do believe that BTS is more dangerous than anyone imagined because they are actually freeing fans from the many false imprisonments of this world. Nothing can be more revolutionary and important than that.

Wow! This is a wonderful analysis. Thank you!

If you know your folklore and have seen the live video, it's not that hard to figure out.

Army have access to traduction mode from Korean to their own language so…we know what BTS lyrics says…yes music transcends language but we know 🙂💜

The way I took the song was then acknowledging all the little and big things we do because of them and for them. They know we study their songs and have a lot of passion for their work. They know we appreciate their work, and they want us to keep doing what we are doing because they don't have intentions to stop.

Once again, another brilliant analysis. Thank you! I’m going to watch this a few more times to really absorb your theories, but you are inspiring me to think deeper than the common interpretations I’ve seen so far. This channel is a treasure.

I'm 45 years old (Silver Army?) and one of the things that fascinates me the most about BTS is that all their songs have a deeper meaning than it seems. They give clues about the theme of the song but nothing more, each person can make their own analysis and feel related to it. They make you feel special, that the song was written for you, that they understand exactly what you think or feel at that precise moment.

Thanks for the video it was great 💜to BTS from Melbourne Australia

Great interpretation. I'm 65 I find the song mesmerizing and I would joke with my 16 year old granddaughter how BTS is luring all of us away . They do hold a magical power and it's beautiful and wonderful. I've always heard that 7 is a spiritual number. They are heavenly in my eyes and I enjoy them very much. Their music gets my old, creaky body up and moving, singing and making my days happier. BTS forever! 💜💜💜💜💜💜💜

i loveee this interpretation and i completely get it!!!!

Well said! 💜💜💜💜💜💜💜 I remember reading somewhere that each member represented an emotion, like RM said his was gratitude, but I could never refind anything about it when i tried and can't remember

I totally agree with your interpretation of the song being more tongue and cheek and deeper than condemning toxic fandom. To add to your point about only the select few being able to hear the flute of the piper, it reminded me of BTS’ Whalien 52 where BTS and ARMY can hear each other cuz we communicate at 52 hertz like the whale’s song. So definitely a theme in their works …

I love this song!!!!